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Aging Japan: Unclaimed burial urns pile up in Japan amid fraying social ties

Unclaimed urns containing ashes of the dead are piling up by the thousands across Japan, creating storage headaches and reflecting fraying family ties and economic pressures in an rapidly aging nation.


from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2J8CDAk

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